VMware Certified Professional (VCP) Contract Job Trends

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 17 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 504 492 569
Rank change year-on-year -12 +77 +160
Contract jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 68 59 64
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.16% 0.14%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.59% 0.55% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 26 43
10th Percentile £411 £425 £314
25th Percentile £507 £491 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £598 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year +13.90% +2.94% +7.37%
75th Percentile £650 £630 £549
90th Percentile £656 £669 £598
UK excluding London median daily rate £630 £560 £488
% change year-on-year +12.50% +14.87% +2.63%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP) falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 11,619 10,644 13,643
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.09% 29.33% 29.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,454 6,436 8,685
10th Percentile £300 £311 £300
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £716 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £520 £535
% change year-on-year -3.85% -2.80% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,012 503 775
10th Percentile £17.49 £19.37 £17.72
25th Percentile £19.28 £24.18 £27.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.11% -15.89% +18.89%
75th Percentile £44.81 £67.01 £68.75
90th Percentile £71.00 £75.00 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £52.21
% change year-on-year -47.05% -9.01% +16.01%

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

VMware Certified Professional (VCP) job vacancy trend in the UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP).

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) over the 6 months to 17 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in the UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP).

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Top 14 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) within the UK over the 6 months to 17 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -43 57 £600 +14.29% 46
UK excluding London -44 33 £630 +12.50% 27
London +11 22 £575 +27.78% 22
Work from Home +11 20 £528 -5.80% 26
South East -11 17 £650 +16.07% 17
South West -6 5 £630 +5.00% 3
North of England -33 5 - - 1
North West - 3 - - 1
Yorkshire -33 2 - -
West Midlands - 2 £420 - 4
Midlands - 2 £420 - 5
Channel Islands - 2 £725 -
East of England -17 1 £563 +151.68%
Scotland - 1 £225 -

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (8.82%) Confluence
1 6 (8.82%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 15 (22.06%) Azure
2 4 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (4.41%) AWS
3 3 (4.41%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 3 (4.41%) Nutanix
4 2 (2.94%) Entra ID
4 2 (2.94%) IaaS
5 1 (1.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (1.47%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.47%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (1.47%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (1.47%) AWS KMS
5 1 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.47%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.47%) PaaS
5 1 (1.47%) Route 53
5 1 (1.47%) SaaS
5 1 (1.47%) Serverless
5 1 (1.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (17.65%) VSAN
2 9 (13.24%) iSCSI
3 8 (11.76%) DNS
3 8 (11.76%) Fibre Channel
4 6 (8.82%) DHCP
4 6 (8.82%) VPN
5 5 (7.35%) Firewall
5 5 (7.35%) Software-Defined Networking
6 4 (5.88%) PCoIP
6 4 (5.88%) WAN
7 3 (4.41%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 3 (4.41%) SAN
8 1 (1.47%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 1 (1.47%) LAN
8 1 (1.47%) NAS
8 1 (1.47%) Network Security
8 1 (1.47%) PBX
8 1 (1.47%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (1.47%) VLAN
8 1 (1.47%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (1.47%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (8.82%) JIRA
2 5 (7.35%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.41%) Bitbucket
3 3 (4.41%) Git
General
1 20 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 13 (19.12%) Public Sector
3 6 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.35%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (5.88%) Finance
6 3 (4.41%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.94%) Electronics
7 2 (2.94%) Local Government
7 2 (2.94%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.94%) Marketing
7 2 (2.94%) Military
8 1 (1.47%) Advertising
8 1 (1.47%) Banking
8 1 (1.47%) French Language
Job Titles
1 23 (33.82%) Consultant
2 20 (29.41%) VMware Consultant
3 19 (27.94%) Architect
4 13 (19.12%) VMware Engineer
5 10 (14.71%) VMware Architect
6 8 (11.76%) Infrastructure Architect
7 7 (10.29%) VMware Specialist
8 5 (7.35%) Azure Consultant
8 5 (7.35%) Principal Consultant
9 3 (4.41%) Azure Architect
9 3 (4.41%) Lead
9 3 (4.41%) Senior
9 3 (4.41%) Senior Architect
10 2 (2.94%) Active Directory Migration Consultant
10 2 (2.94%) Data Centre Consultant
10 2 (2.94%) Exchange Migration Consultant
10 2 (2.94%) Hyper-V Consultant
10 2 (2.94%) PowerShell Consultant
10 2 (2.94%) PowerShell Engineer
10 2 (2.94%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.47%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (1.47%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.24%) Data Centre
2 6 (8.82%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (5.88%) PKI
3 4 (5.88%) Replication
4 2 (2.94%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.47%) Blackberry
5 1 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.47%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.47%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 16 (23.53%) Windows
2 15 (22.06%) Windows Server
3 8 (11.76%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (5.88%) Linux
5 3 (4.41%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (2.94%) VMS
7 1 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.47%) SUSE
7 1 (1.47%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (22.06%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (14.71%) Migration
3 8 (11.76%) Agile
3 8 (11.76%) Performance Analysis
4 7 (10.29%) Edge Virtualization
5 6 (8.82%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (8.82%) ITIL
5 6 (8.82%) Performance Optimisation
6 5 (7.35%) Customer Requirements
6 5 (7.35%) Infrastructure Automation
6 5 (7.35%) Service Management
6 5 (7.35%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (5.88%) Critical Thinking
7 4 (5.88%) Deployment Automation
7 4 (5.88%) Performance Tuning
8 3 (4.41%) Cloud Security
8 3 (4.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (4.41%) Knowledge Transfer
8 3 (4.41%) Runbook
8 3 (4.41%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 32 (47.06%) PowerShell
2 31 (45.59%) Python
3 21 (30.88%) JavaScript
4 13 (19.12%) SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (61.76%) Security Cleared
2 29 (42.65%) SC Cleared
3 19 (27.94%) Microsoft Certification
4 13 (19.12%) MCSE
4 13 (19.12%) VCAP
5 10 (14.71%) DV Cleared
6 8 (11.76%) VCP5
6 8 (11.76%) VCP6
7 7 (10.29%) Azure Certification
7 7 (10.29%) CCNP
7 7 (10.29%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (7.35%) MCSA
9 3 (4.41%) OCA
9 3 (4.41%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (4.41%) VCDX
10 2 (2.94%) CCNA
10 2 (2.94%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (2.94%) Degree
10 2 (2.94%) HP ASE
11 1 (1.47%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.94%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (2.94%) GDPR
1 2 (2.94%) NCSC
System Software
1 38 (55.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 33 (48.53%) vSphere
3 17 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
4 16 (23.53%) VMware NSX
5 10 (14.71%) Active Directory
6 8 (11.76%) NFS
7 5 (7.35%) Hyper-V
8 4 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (2.94%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (1.47%) Docker
10 1 (1.47%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 24 (35.29%) vRealize
2 11 (16.18%) vCenter Server
3 9 (13.24%) PowerCLI
4 8 (11.76%) Ansible
4 8 (11.76%) Terraform
5 3 (4.41%) Failover Clustering
5 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (4.41%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 2 (2.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (2.94%) FortiGate
6 2 (2.94%) vMotion
7 1 (1.47%) Kubernetes
7 1 (1.47%) SCOM
7 1 (1.47%) VxRail
Vendors
1 68 (100.00%) VMware
2 24 (35.29%) Microsoft
3 13 (19.12%) Veeam
4 9 (13.24%) NetApp
5 8 (11.76%) Splunk
6 4 (5.88%) Cisco
6 4 (5.88%) F5
7 3 (4.41%) Atlassian
7 3 (4.41%) Oracle
7 3 (4.41%) SolarWinds
8 2 (2.94%) 3PAR
8 2 (2.94%) Broadcom
8 2 (2.94%) Citrix
8 2 (2.94%) Dell
8 2 (2.94%) Fortinet
8 2 (2.94%) Juniper
8 2 (2.94%) Nimble Storage
8 2 (2.94%) ProCurve
8 2 (2.94%) SAP
9 1 (1.47%) Palo Alto